There was a guy in the hall who was a little "off" as everyone liked to say. He used to stare at people a lot and sometimes he'd just say totally off the wall and inappropiate things. He had a thing for my friend's mom and wouldn't get it that she didn't like him for a long time. My mom always said that he had done a lot of drugs before becoming a dub and he had 'emotional problems' because of it, so it seemed that people excused his behavior. He would disappear for a few months at a time, which I later found out was because he was checked into mental hospitals.
Later, he decided to get married to a woman from a congregation some 200 miles away. My mom and I and a few others from the hall went to the wedding. The sister was 18 years old, and he had to be at least 35 at this time. (I have nothing against big age differences, but this is important for later.) She moved in with him but things fell apart within 6 months. The story was that she locked him out of the house and was screaming, accusing him of all sorts of perverted things that weren't true and that she was just too young to be married. She went back to her family, he becomes a MS.
Later still, he married my cousin..she's a distant cousin, but we grew up together and are about the same age. He was in his 40's at this time, and my cousin was early 20's. She kept trying to get in touch with me, but I had moved away, so I never did get to speak to her at this time. Then, I hear that they are divorcing and it's just horrible and my cousin is absolutely crushed. No one would tell me what in the hell was going on though.
Then, I moved back to the area a few months later and I hear you can look up to see if sex offenders live in your area and see their pictures, etc. I decide to look and see if any live by me. OMG There was this guy accused of lewd conduct with someone under 14. I brought it up to my mom who finally told me the story as to why my cousin's marriage with him broke up...um yeah, I think I had figured it out the second I saw him in the sex offender's registry! I think of all the times he would stare at me when I was younger and offer to work with me in service and drive me in his van! :::shudder::: I never went because he always creeped me out.
I wonder if anyone ever did go with him back then...my mom tried to say that since he was an active witness back then, of course nothing happened. She seems to forget he was 'active' when he was married to my cousin and got jailed for this stuff! I still have no idea if the victim was a jw, or if he met her somewhere else.